Schedule Your Twitter Ads, er, Updates - Portfolio.com - 57 minutes ago
Sam Gustin says: The commercialization of Twitter continues, for companies other than Twitter, at least.Twittertise , allows users to schedule their updates for a certain time. This is a new twist for Twitter, which is supposed to be all about what you're doing "right now."Now companies can set specific times for sending out commercial messages like special offers, instead of having some unlucky employee manually send out the updates.Founder Jon Steinberg, who works for Google and says Twittertise is just a hobby, tells Alley Insider that a couple of hundred folks are using the free service a day, including Comcast..

When Car Talk is Trash Talk: Is 'WSJ' a Ford? - Portfolio.com - 2 hours, 18 minutes ago
Remember a couple days ago when Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson boasted that the paper's new luxury magazine, WSJ will be the equivalent of a BMW 7-series when compared with How To Spend It, a similar publication put out by the Financial Times, which Thomson likened to the lesser 3-series?

Major Redesign of the 'Times'; Fewer Sections - Portfolio.com - 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
Desperate times are yielding some extreme measures at The New York Times. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. just announced a major redesign of the weekday paper that will involve moving the metro section, heretofore a standalone, into the "A" section and merging the business and sports sections.

First Microsoft/Seinfeld Ad Bombs - Portfolio.com - Fri 1:40 pm ET
Sam Gustin says: If this is what Microsoft is paying Jerry Seinfeld $10 million for, they might as well have thrown that money out the window.Kicking off its $300 million ad campaign to promote Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, NBC ...

Google: Now We Are 10 - Portfolio.com - Fri 1:19 pm ET
Sunday is Google's 10th birthday. There's no need to send a card: You can expect birthday candles or some other appropriate symbol on the Google search page that day. For September 7, 1998 was the day when Google was incorporated ...

Labor Pains - Portfolio.com - Fri 1:11 pm ET
Over on the main site I've written a defense of the birth-death model the BLS uses to calculate the number of jobs gained and lost each month, and also argue that we pay too ...

Does McCain Buy His Own Anti-Media Rhetoric? - Portfolio.com - Fri 12:23 pm ET
The most interesting thing about John McCain's acceptance speech last night was what wasn't in it: any hint of the media bashing we've heard so much of this week from his campaign and its sympathizers.